Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person who is prepared to be named — I shall give the information if called to do so — has told me about the discrimination on training in a trust hospital in Leeds . |
| 2 | It 's strange the way Chinese Whispers start about certain guitars ; by the time the umpteenth person has told you about the amazing instrument that they 've seen , you begin to be very sceptical about whether anything can be as outrageous as described … |
| 3 | Mr. Wilson : As the Minister reiterates his enthusiasm for bids that give workers a substantial say , does he consider that there is any conflict between that and what he has told us about the SDA investing £500,000 to ensure that such bids do not succeed ? |
| 4 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 5 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 6 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 7 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 8 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 9 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 10 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 11 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 12 | In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics . |
| 13 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 14 | She could have asked him about the carrots . |
| 15 | ‘ I should have warned you about the crush . ’ |
| 16 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 17 | I 've quizzed him about the noise , but he says he 's never heard it — well of course he has n't , he 's fast asleep ! |
| 18 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 19 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 20 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 21 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 22 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 23 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 24 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 25 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 26 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 27 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 28 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 29 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 30 | Mrs Moore had n't understood much of what Sister Duggan had told her about the recurrence of fluid and the aspiration that was again necessary . |